Justin Ahrens

Justin Ahrens is the founder and principal of Rule29, an award winning suburban Chicago-based strategic creative firm. He is a frequent guest blogger, national speaker and recently authored a book: Life Kerning: Creative Ways to Fine Tune Your Perspective on Career and Life (Wiley). Follow his and Rule29's adventures here or on Twitter.

To Design For Social Good Campaigns, Get In The Shoes Of The People You’re Trying To Help

You need real immersion in your client’s world.

To Design For Social Good Campaigns, Get In The Shoes Of The People You’re Trying To Help

3 Rules For Designers Who Want To Help Nonprofits

Don’t give your work away, but make sure you go in with a plan.

3 Rules For Designers Who Want To Help Nonprofits

How To Turn Colleges Into Incubators For Changemaking Design

When working on social good projects, designers can team up with design students. If done right, it can lead to great work and setting young designers on a future path to social good.

How To Turn Colleges Into Incubators For Changemaking Design

“Cause Design” Has Impacts Beyond Doing Good: Changing How You Think About Design

Working on issues outside their comfort zone can force designers to confront their own assumptions.

“Cause Design” Has Impacts Beyond Doing Good: Changing How You Think About Design

Impact

We can 3D-print wood now

Plant-based meat companies need to stop fighting each other and fight industrial agriculture instead

This new app from Google is designed to preserve the words of fading languages

News

Healthcare workers, here’s how to get your free Dunkin’ coffee on National Nurses Day 2021

Women beware: Free fertility apps are stealing your sex data

Users went from loving to hating Twitter’s reduced image crops in 24 hours. Because it’s Twitter

Co.Design

These stunning photographs capture synchronized swimming from above

Why your next refrigerator may have a radical (but invisible) makeover

Ancient Greeks and Romans got a surprising number of things right about the spread of disease

Work Life

Asian-American leaders share their vision for a more equitable future

‘Remote first’ isn’t a culture. Here’s what companies should focus on instead

Do this one thing to instantly boost your confidence at work